Of course, you could simply mix the dry ingredients and make your own homemade organic chicken feed. However, there are many advantages to actually growing it in your garden. For instance, seeds you can often get for a few bucks or even free, but when you plant them in your garden you get plenty of produce for your family and your girls too!

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Here’s What You’ll Need:

lettuce seeds

buckwheat seeds

radish seeds

cabbage seeds

beetroot seeds

sunflower seeds

amaranth seeds

kale seeds

tomato seeds

comfrey seeds

watermelon seeds

purslane seeds

spinach seeds

bok choy seeds

swiss chard seeds

organic fertilizer

compost

manure

The trick is to grow as many of these in your home garden as you can, and then you share any extras or leftovers with your girls. As far as the greens are concerned, they enjoy lettuce, radish, kale, comfrey, spinach, purslane, beet tops, bok choy and swiss chard.Cabbage heads can be made into pinatas and thrown in to provide them with food and hours of entertainment.

Then let us look at the seed section were you can grow things like sunflowers and toss the heads into your coop. Buckwheat and amaranth will provide both greens and seeds. Whilst tomatoes and watermelons they seem to enjoy the fleshy fruit parts as well as the seeds. I have shared tips on how to grow most of these veggies already in previous post, simply click on the links above for more information on each one.